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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kristiaan, post: 164571, member: 654&quot;]&quot;PLEASE DO NOT USE A HOT NEEDLE ON ANYTHING! &quot;</p><p>Also my feeling and the reason I didn&#039;t! But gave up fighting &quot;general opinion&quot;.</p><p>I am a profesional restorer and know about plastics, and I can tell it ain&#039;t plastic.</p><p>My picture showing two signatures, to compare, is build up with a part of the&nbsp; image you are showing.</p><p>I do agree my photo skill is zero, and having it in hand and comparing to the one from the New Bedford Whaling Museum I do see resemblance (it could be of course the wishfull thinking spasm!).</p><p>Do not feel any anger in my message (English is&#039;nt my mother tongue and I might express my self badly!!). But when you say&nbsp; &quot;yours doesn&#039;t have the detail that his does&quot; at wich details are you refearing to please?</p><p>For me the whale&#039;s head look&#039;s very similar to the one on the museum piece, only pointing in the other direction. Same thing with the whale&#039;s tail...</p><p>There is a figure wearing a red jacket only that looks paler then the red in the union jack on the other plate.</p><p>And there is one detail that troubles me; on my plaque the flag with a single star is carved but not coloured, why would that be?</p><p>And then regarding the knowledge of some auction houses, I can tell you that every one makes mistakes for one, and second it takes two to tango; if there is no higher bid against you...you have done well! I am like 40 years into antiques and buy great part of my junk in auction houses, and there is always a profit to be made. I am located in Belgium and there is (for example!)no aucion house specialized in militaria ..... Imagine the deals I had only in militaria. But it also happened in statues, toys, paintings and so on...</p><p>I also didn&#039;t get thise plate for nothing, I payed a little less then what a average plate would go. I collect maritime stuff , stumbled on it at the regular weekly auction house and that is it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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